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Raising Awareness about Women’s Health and the FemTech Industry

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Do you feel it? There's lots of women power this summer on Future of the Business World, as we discuss issues like equality and embracing a diversity of perspectives in the business boardroom and beyond. This month, Wharton Global Youth takes that conversation in a new direction with Sophie Bakshi,…Read More

Round 2 of Wharton Global Youth’s 2023 Comment & Win Contest Celebrates 10 Storytelling Superstars

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Learning is inherently connected to storytelling. Psychologists who study the strength of narratives say that stories are a powerful way of communicating ideas by highlighting our own experiences, making sense of what we know, and creating continuity. We learn by both telling and hearing stories. During Round 2 of the…Read More

The Launch Project Connects Women to a Future of Fearless Leadership

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Our Future of the Business World producers don’t often get to meet our podcast guests in person; our discussions are taped virtually. We’re happy to report, however, that we had a face-to-face chat with this month’s episode subject, Sahana Ahuja, while she visited the Wharton School’s Philadelphia campus in June…Read More

The Results Are In for Round 1 of the 2023 Comment & Win Contest!

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On June 5, 2023, the Wharton Global Youth team declared: Let the comments commence! And for the next two weeks of Round 1 in this year’s Comment & Win contest (ending on June 16), your thoughts and ideas spilled out across our online business journal in a flood of thoughtful…Read More

Global Youth Summer Students Explore the History of Penn & Slavery

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It’s a promising Monday morning at the University of Pennsylvania, complemented by a chorus of chirping sparrows and the bright sun reflecting off a statue of Benjamin Franklin, centrally located in front of College Hall. The Philadelphia campus is uncharacteristically quiet as most students, faculty and staff enjoy an extended…Read More

Wharton Investment Competition: Tales from the 2023 Teams

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On June 5, 2023, the Wharton Global Youth Program launched registration for the 2023-2024 Wharton Global High School Investment competition. We’ve just got to ask: Are you ready to have some fun with finance? Maybe you’re worried because you don’t know a stock from a stapler, and $100,000, even if…Read More

How Will AI and Hybrid Work Change Your Job?

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Nikita Q., a high school junior from Washington state, U.S., already has a clear vision of where she fits into the future of work. The 17-year-old Wharton Global Youth Pre-baccalaureate student aspires to be an artificial intelligence (AI) ethicist, exploring and problem-solving how society can responsibly use advancing tech. “I…Read More

A Competitive Debater and ‘Big Talker’ Finds Her Place in PR

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On this month’s Wharton Global Youth podcast, we explore new Future of the Business World territory: inside public relations. Earlier this year Casey Gottlieb, 16 and a sophomore from New York City who attends Blair Academy in New Jersey, launched her own PR agency to help businesses communicate with the…Read More

Strategic Marketing: Brands Consider the Power of Purpose

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Each year Larry Fink, the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, writes a letter to CEOs discussing forces that are fundamentally changing finance. Amidst a business landscape of sound environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices and policies and post-pandemic unrest, Fink wrote in his 2022…Read More

Collaborating and Thriving in the Workplace of the Future

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We’ve all been hearing about the transformative power of artificial intelligence, particularly tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 creating written content and visuals that could potentially replace existing worker skills. We will have lots more to explore, experience and adapt to with the emerging world of generative AI. Beyond technology,…Read More

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